by admin on January 23, 2012
Dawn is laid low over the weekend by a stomach illness, which is perfect timing for a woman trying to lay out the pieces of her life and build interesting machines from them. The show delves into the mind of the duplicitous nerd, trying to discern why they lie, and why they assign importance to things that should be superficial at best, and from there, goes toodling through some musings on the egalitarian nature of art, and where “making a living” should rate on the “I want to be a podcaster” scale of desires. Also, some discussion on the television programs Being Human, Private Practice, Gossip Girl, and the disappointment of being Jamie Kennedy.
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by admin on January 17, 2012
Sometimes we look at our own lives through the prism of pop-culture, and that’s the overriding theme of today’s show. Why Dawn and Patrick persist in trying to educate each other on their favorite bands even though they KNOW it’s a lost cause, why sometimes rooting for the good guys is the worst thing that can happen in a TV show, How both Dawn and Bobby tend to ride to the rescue of shows they have no ownership over, Why Friday Night Lights works in much the same ways the best Science Fiction works, and how the cliche about critics and frustrated artists is mostly dead-on.
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by admin on January 9, 2012
So, what’s changed? Something has to have changed. You can’t go through what Dawn and Patrick went through and not be changed somehow. And if you listen to only the first 15 minutes of this episode – you’d be wrong. Because Dawn and Bobby spend most of that time talking about Gabe Kaplan, Poker, and sweater choices. But inevitably, discussion swings to how Dawn is surviving the ongoing aftermath of Patrick’s health crises, and how they’re both learning to move forward. It’s a little easier for Patrick, because he slept through most of it. Dawn was wide awake for almost all of it, and she discusses all the horrifying, scary, sad, and often funny moments that she went through, just in time to get back to work and find out work was going away. Yeah, things have changed, but its still Ham-Fisted Radio, alright.
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by admin on January 5, 2012
Monday evening, January 9th 2012. Talk to you then.
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by admin on December 15, 2011
A holiday tradition here at Ham-Fisted Radio, Dawn Taylor provides a curated score for your holiday celebrations. So download and enjoy Ham-Fisted Christmas 2011 playing in the background as you do all the Christmas-y things you do every holiday season, be it decorating, drinking, drinking & decorating, arguing, cooking, arguing about cooking, laughing, loving, and enjoying what is best in life.
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by admin on December 12, 2011
We’ve talked before on this show about how we really like donations, even if we consistently forget to ask for them.
Well, we’re remembering now. Just in time for holiday season. Just after Patrick, already undergoing dialysis for the rest of his life (unless someone wants to cough up a free kidney? Anyone?) also underwent open heart surgery to repair a torn aorta.
This is obviously putting a huge strain on our heroes Dawn & Patrick. So if you’d like to help in any way, please visit the link below.
Patrick’s Evil Kidney
We’ll talk to you soon. Promise.
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by admin on November 9, 2011
Well, there wasn’t anything exactly planned for the 100th episode, but this episode pretty much encapsulates what made the previous 99 work the way they did: Special Guest Jaime Kirk of PDX Yar tells the tale of how he started out a sad tuba player and ended up a stage combat supervisor responsible for choreographing Trek in the Park and building a working pirate ship all in the same summer. Along the way, Dawn, Jaime and Fatboy get REAL introspective, looking back on the past 100 shows, their own past, and the act of chasing their adolescence into their 40′s, and the voices nagging in the back of their heads: Whose voices are they, really, and how much attention are they worth? There are fights, there are knives, there are jokes, there are screw-ups, mistakes, pressures, crying jags, a pile of pills and a bottle of whiskey. And that’s probably how the 100th episode of Ham-Fisted Radio should go
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by admin on November 2, 2011
Dawn explores the link between ritual and satisfaction when it comes to food. The show is all about food, and science, and whether there can be such a thing as a $100 turkey, whether it could really taste that much better, how pet food marketing is geared towards selling beef leavings and reconstituted grain towards the humans and not the animals, varying theories as to why spicy foods got that way, how much childhood memories affect how food tastes, and the alchemy involved in taking tomatoes and beef and creating the best chili possible.
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by admin on October 26, 2011
An act as small as turning the heat on launches Dawn into a world where fistfuls of guff are given to many who deserve it. Guff for those who mock those sensitive to cold weather, Guff for those who place their cold extremities on their spouse’s toasty warm and sleeping bodies, Guff for those who channel all their productive energies into largely frivolous endeavors, and Guff for those who consider such endeavors frivolous for arbitrary reasons. Plus – cookies!
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by admin on October 19, 2011
Dawn Taylor has triumphed over a lot of things in the almost 2 years of this show. But the only thing that could stop her from doing a full show today? A locked door. This on the day that Dave Helfrey returns to Hamfisted to talk about the latest edition of Fright Town, what kind of craziness he’s up to this year (Monkeys with Knives and Werepugs) the Human Centipede part 2 is actually seen and reviewed by Mr. Helfrey, the human instinct to throw your loved ones to the monsters, and a quick bit of lamentation about the memery that has turned Silence of the Lambs into a comedy for a large number of people. 60 minutes worth of show in 40 minutes – dig in.
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